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Words from the Science Team Lead
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The goal of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System project is to prototype monitoring capabilities to support U.S. needs for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of carbon stocks and fluxes. Initiated in 2010, the project is maturing into one of the most exciting and productive initiatives in Earth Sciences. Fundamental to the effort is the close collaboration between scientists and stakeholders to produce the best and most relevant science information on carbon stocks and fluxes.
To date, the project has produced an impressive 547 publications, many in high-profile journals like Nature, Science, and PNAS. Collectively, these papers have been cited over 31,600 times. Underlying these publications, the project has also produced and archived 147 related data products, downloaded over 54,000 times. In the process, CMS has engaged more than 200 stakeholders from 12 different countries (65 working in government (Federal to local levels), 44 working in NGOs, 40 representing companies, 19 working in universities, 9 working in research institutes or museums and 2 working in media as well as 12 that fall outside these categories) .
CMS projects investigate a wide range of domains, resolutions, and policy relevant scales (local-regional-global). The program has advanced the application readiness level of most products, with 41 reaching the highest application readiness levels (7-9). Examples of major successes include: augmenting forest inventories over remote regions of Alaska, developing high-resolution products to meet state and regional needs for forest carbon, mapping global wetland biomass, quantifying carbon of emissions from Indonesian fires, detection of methane "super emitters" and quantification of methane emissions both locally and nationally, and leading the development of advanced global atmospheric flux systems, among others.
In 2021, 17 new projects were selected in response to the ROSES-2020 solicitation. These projects will continue to deepen and expand the scope of several of the successful prototyping efforts, while investigating new capabilities in multiple areas including dry forest systems, croplands, wetlands, methane, and the characterization of uncertainty.
Looking ahead, CMS is well positioned to continue to lead in the development of new
remote sensing and modeling products strongly linked to stakeholder
needs for information on carbon. We are actively partnering with scientists from a variety of organizations and are interested in expanding those connections. We are working on numerous synthesis papers including the Phase 2 report.
We are preparing for COP26, the November Science Team Meeting, and three AGU poster and panel sessions. We also continue to host the focus collection on Carbon Monitoring Research and Applications.
-George Hurtt, Science Team Leader
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NASA CMS Science Team Meeting – 2021
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The CMS Science Team Meeting will be held virtually November 16-18, 2021. As in previous years, a Stakeholder Workshop will be held in conjunction with the meeting. Information about the agenda, registration, and presentations is posted on the CMS Meeting website.
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CMS Sessions at AGU
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December 14, 2021
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Greenhouse gas emission inventories, climate mitigation planning, forest carbon sequestration and Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, cap-and-trade systems, self-reporting programs, and their associated Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) frameworks depend upon data that are accurate, systematic, practical, and transparent. For carbon, there are multiple MRV frameworks in existence, reflecting a diversity of spatial scales, governing bodies, and relevant policies. Given the scientific challenges, policy importance, and breadth of activities occurring around the world, this session will focus on advances in research and applications, including decision support and policy, that align or address stakeholder needs through the measuring, modeling, and monitoring of strategic carbon pools. This session will also feature a panel of Stakeholders representing Local, State, and National Government Agencies and NGOs. |
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Working Groups
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CMS working groups are organized to promote collaboration and synthesis of activities between related projects and to advance initiative goals.
- Science Team Members are expected to become a member and actively participate in one or more Working Groups.
- Other participants on currently funded CMS projects (e.g. other Co-Is, Postdocs, Graduate students, etc) can participate in Working Group activities as appropriate and in support of the Science Team Member's role on those particular working groups.
Phase 3 Working Groups
Flux Working Group
led by Abhishek Chatterjee
Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Working Group
led by Pontus Olofsson
Methane Working Group
led by Daniel Jacob
Uncertainties Working Group
led by Robert Kennedy
Biomass Working Group
led by Andy Hudak and Laura Duncanson
Wet Carbon Working Group
led by Lola Fatoyinbo
Stakeholder Working Group
led by Edil Sepulveda Carlo
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NASA CMS Applications - Policy Speaker Series
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The CMS Policy Speaker Series brings together carbon data stakeholders to bridge CMS science with user needs, inform CMS PIs of specific end user opportunities and provide new avenues to improve and develop CMS science and data products.
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The CMS applications team hosted a virtual CMS Policy Speaker Series seminar on July 27, 2021 to highlight how different satellites are being used together to provide persistent monitoring of methane emissions worldwide. The speaker of the seminar was Stephane Germain, founder, and chief executive officer of the Canadian company, GHGSat, whose technology provides actionable greenhouse gas emissions data and insights to various industries. The presentation, with an attendance of around 100 people, focused on the need for global transparency in greenhouse gas emissions, and the need for global data to verify inventories, find leaks, and measure progress towards national and industrial targets that will become part of the global stocktake.
Mr. Germain indicated that many financing experiments are underway to sustain global GHG monitoring, and that global emissions database initiatives are starting around the world. Private investment is important and there is a growing market for GHG emissions data and insights. Markets need: threshold and attribution, affordable services, and reliable information. According to him, the roadmap for working with other satellites has the following key requirements: (1) find smallest possible emissions; (2) unambiguous identification of sources; (3) find emissions fast, anywhere in the world; (4) differentiate intermittent vs persistent sources; (5) global models; (6) generate reliable insights; and (7) generate consistent insights.
The applications team also highlighted some of the CMS projects and products available for monitoring methane using satellites and other remote sensing instruments. One example is Riley Duren’s CMS project on a prototype methane monitoring system for California, for which the following archived product is available: methane plumes derived from AVIRIS-NG over point sources across California, 2016-2017. Other relevant projects include those from Daniel Jacob in 2014 on high resolution constraints on North America and global methane sources using satellites, and in 2016 on improved understanding of methane emissions and trends in North America and globally through a unified top-down and bottom-up approach exploiting GOSAT and TROPOMI satellite data.
To see the slides and the recording of the panel visit:
https://carbon.nasa.gov/policy_speaker_27072021.html
***For more information on CMS applications and stakeholder engagement efforts, please visit https://carbon.nasa.gov/applications.html, or contact CMS Applications Coordinator, Edil Sepulveda Carlo at edil.sepulvedacarlo@nasa.gov. ***
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Featured Publications
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CMS Hyperwall Presentations
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Environmental Research Letters
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By the Numbers
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546 CMS Pubs total
- 36 CMS pubs in Science, Nature, and PNAS
- CMS pubs have been cited 31600 times
147 CMS data products archived total
- CMS data products have been downloaded over 54000 times
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Upcoming Events
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CMS Science Team Meeting
November 16-18, 2021
Virtual
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